SIBERIAK LARK. 201 



This bird was thought by Pallas and Latliam to be 

 a variety of A. calandra. It is liowever a very distinct 

 species, and tlie rounder form of the beak, the much 

 slighter figure, the more pointed wing, and the difference 

 in comparative length of the fourth primary, remove it 

 altogether from that bird. 



The Siberian Lark is an inhabitant, of Siberia, Tar- 

 tary, and Southern Russia, and rarely of Poland. It is 

 also included by Captain Blakiston among the birds 

 shot by him in the Crimea. — "Zoologist," 1857, p. 5509. 



Its habits are described as similar to those of the 

 rest of the family. By the kindness of Mr. Tristram, 

 I am able to give a figure not only of the bird but 

 its Q^^, both of which that gentleman received from 

 Dr. MiddendoriF. 



The bird has at first sight much the appearance of 

 a Bunting. Captain Blakiston thus describes his meeting 

 with it.~"Zoologist," 5509:— 



"A few days after the 5th. of January I was again 

 on the qui vim, as a friend told me he had seen some 

 Buntings white below and rusty coloured above j with 

 this hint I made for a camp, where he said some had 

 been shot, the ground being covered with snow, and 

 sure enough, on looking over a heap of small birds, I 

 found the Calandra Lark, Common Bunting, and another 

 new to me, which I put down for distinction as 'Lark 

 Bunting, ISTo. SO,' the skin as well as the sternum of 

 which I preserved. The same officer a day or two 

 afterwards kindly sent me a specimen of the same bird, 

 the White-winged Lark, ( Alauda leucoptera,) a male." 

 This was determined afterwards by Mr. Gould, and 

 Captain Blakiston gives a long and accurate description 

 of it in its winter dress. 



M. Ch. F. Dubois has an excellent figure of the 

 bird, both in its young and adult plumage, with the 



